Hi,
How can I store inline comments in the argument list of a plpgsql function to
document complex overloaded functions with lots of arguments? It seems that
PostgreSQL accepts the comments, but strips them as the function gets stored.
I am using PostgreSQL 9.1.2.
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On 20/01/2012 17:28, Ralph Graulich wrote:
Hi,
How can I store inline comments in the argument list of a plpgsql
function to document complex overloaded functions with lots of
arguments? It seems that PostgreSQL accepts the comments, but strips
them as the function gets stored.
You could
Hello Ray,
You could use COMMENT ON instead:
COMMENT ON function func_test(text, text)
IS 'loads of documentation here';
Would this do the job?
Thank you for your input.
I know about the COMMENT ON function, as I use it for all other purposes, like
documenting columns and
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Subject: [GENERAL] comments in argument list of plpgsql get stripped?
Hi,
How can I
Hi David,
The fact that you can write comments in the middle of the arguments in an
artifact of the parser and likely there is not reasonable way to get them to
persist.
Artifact as in something not normally used?
You either want to use COMMENT ON like Raymond said or you can
simply move
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From: Ralph Graulich [mailto:maill...@shauny.de]
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 3:24 PM
To: David Johnston
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] comments in argument list of plpgsql get stripped?
Hi David,
The fact
On Friday, January 20, 2012 12:24:26 pm Ralph Graulich wrote:
Hi David,
II) Having PostgreSQL issuing a NOTICE that comments get stripped if you
use comments somewhere where PostgreSQL accepts them, but discards them
silently?
I think that is covered by this:
Hi Adrian,
II) Having PostgreSQL issuing a NOTICE that comments get stripped if you
use comments somewhere where PostgreSQL accepts them, but discards them
silently?
I think that is covered by this:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-COMMENTS
